Not fewer than eight persons, among them students, were crushed to death when a tipper conveying sharp sand suffered break failure in Mpape, a settlement close to the Maitama District of Abuja.
The incident, it was gathered, occurred on Thursday around 4 p.m. before the Keke NAPEP Park along the road that leads to Mpape junction.
A witness, Mustapha Aminu, said that the truck rammed into some tricycles popularly called Keke and vehicles, killing at least 8 people, including students.
Aminu said the driver, having seen the havoc he had caused, abandoned the truck and ran away with the help of a motorcycle.
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